From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 07:11:09 -0700
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On 05/30/2015 06:11 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> 2017? Really? Is there any need for that hyperbole?
>>
>> Frankly, based on how I feel now, I would have no problem doing 9.5 in
>> 2016 and saying we have a lot of retooling to do. We could say we have
>> gotten too far out ahead of ourselves and we need to regroup and
>> restructure the code.
>
> Actually, barrelling ahead to get releases out is how we got into this
> mess in the first place. I would vote we put the 9.5 release on hold
> while we do an honest assessment of where we are. In hindsight, we
> should have known to do this even before 9.4 was released.
>
It seems that we all are forgetting one of the fundamental concepts of
open source development:
Q. When will release X be?
A. When it is done.
A delay because of quality concerns shows the integrity of the project.
Sincerely,
JD
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